What's the progress on the Mobile Port?

[David Alayachew]

Your work is a blessing Johan. I have been tracking mobile for almost a
year now, and I can't wait to see what comes from it.

Is it currently headless? Or are you jumping straight into things?

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 5:32 AM Johan Vos <johan.vos at gluonhq.com> wrote:

> Hi Julian,
>
> The main branch in the mobile repo [1]  has a rather small diff from the
> head of the jdk [2]. With this diff, it is possible to build the native
> class libs for iOS and Android.
> I have a local version of hotspot (Zero) that allows to run HelloWorld on
> iOS, as of yesterday. That requires lots of cleanup, and then I'll create a
> PR.
> I'll add a more complete status update soon (within the next few days),
> always good to hear people want to read about it :)
>
> - Johan
>
> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/mobile
> [2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 8:07 AM Julian Waters <tanksherman27 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was rather intrigued to see that the JDK has a mobile port. I have some
>> experience in maintaining a JDK Port (
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8288293) and while unlikely that the
>> Port will reach master, I believe this experience will allow me to offer
>> some help. Could I ask what the progress of the mobile port is? What are
>> the changes that the mobile port has made to the JDK to allow it to compile
>> and run on phones and operating systems like iOS and Android? Is there a
>> general diff I could view to see what the mobile port has done thus far?
>> What HotSpot variant does mobile use, for instance? Does it use Zero, or
>> any other different VM variant from Server?
>>
>> I'm looking forward to helping out in any way I can to bring Java to
>> phones around the world :)
>>
>> best regards,
>> Julian
>>
>
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